Awards

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You receive awards when you reach certain milestones whilst playing Grepolis. This guide lists all known achievements (medals) that you can get in Grepolis, how to get them, and how to choose who sees them.

Choosing which awards to display

By default, when you receive an award only you will see it. If you want other players to see your awards, you need to edit your award settings.

To do this, go in to your Profile and choose the Awards section as shown below:

Award-settings.png

You can change the default setting for each server that you have an account shown on - select the server from the first drop down, then select what should happen when you receive new awards on that server:

  • Only visible to you -- New awards are only shown to you, nobody else can see them
  • Visible to the alliance -- New awards are made visible to members of your alliance
    • Note: It's not clear how "visible to alliance" works - for example, is it just the alliance you're in or does it also include pact alliances (allies and NAPs)? It's also unclear as to whether your alliance on other servers can see awards that aren't from that server.
  • Visible to everyone -- New awards are made visible to all Grepolis players (on all servers)

For example, if you select the "Visible to everyone" setting, then new awards will automatically be added to the "Visible to everyone" column. You're existing awards will not be updated, you'll have to move them manually if you want to change who can see them.

Regardless of the default settings, you can still manually rearrange your awards between the three columns by dragging them to a different column.

Depending on which column the award is in, other players will be able to see it in a bar at the bottom of your user profile...

Award Bar (viewing other player's awards)

To see the rewards received by a player, look on their user profile page and you'll see the award bar at the bottom:

Award-bar.png

As shown above, blue banners indicate which World (server) the players were awarded on. Players can have accounts on multiple servers so it's not uncommon to see several worlds (and their associated awards) listed.

Prolific players will have a big list of awards that scroll off the edge of the screen - you can drag the award bar with the mouse to scroll it and see more awards.

Hovering over an award will display more information about the award such as it's title and what was required to achieve it.

If no awards are shown then it's likely that the player has chosen not to make their awards publicly visible.

Why would I choose not to show my awards to everyone?

Awards can possibly give away sensitive information about your account on a server - for example, do you want opponents to know that you regularly fail espionage (spying) missions or that you've recruited lots of mythical units?

Remember that you'll always get a notice when you receive a new reward so you can manually override the display of that award fairly soon after you get it. You might still choose to add all awards to the "Visible to everyone" or "Visible to the alliance" columns, and then remove any sensitive awards after you get the notice about receiving them.

How do I show my awards in forum topics and other places?

You can insert your awards in a forum topic, your profile text, in-game messages and various other places using the "Award" button as shown below:

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You can choose to display all your awards, or just awards from a specific server, or even a specific award. Quite why you'd want to do this I have no idea, but hey, its still pretty cool!

The BBCode (formatting markup used in the in-game forums) can be pasted in to your profile, notepad and anywhere else that accepts BBCode within the game.

List of all known Awards (and how to get them!)

Here's a list of all known awards - if you find any more (or know any of the unknown requirements mentioned below), please post details in the forum.

Daily Awards

Each of the following awards are handed out once a day to the player who best achieves the awards' requirements. For example, the person who loots the most cities in a day, more than anyone else in the world (server), will get the "Looter of the day" award.

Daily awards look like a tombstone and have the date engraved on them, along with a picture representing the achievement:

Image
Name
Award Eligibility
Attacker of the day.png Attacker of the day Kill the most troops in a day as attacker
Defender of the day.png Defender of the day Defeat the most troops in a day as defender
Looter of the day.png Looter of the day Loot the most cities in a day
Most towns conquered of the day.png Great power of the day Conquer the most cities in a day

You can collect large numbers of these daily awards - each time you're the best on the server for one of the requirements above you'll be awarded with a new tombstone!

Special Awards

Every so often, something unusual happens in Grepolis, such as an Advent calendar quest. Not surprisingly there's awards for these special events or quests:

Image
Name
Award Eligibility
Advent calendar complete.png Advent Calendar Award You found all the gifts of the Advent Calendar!
Easter eggs collected.png Easter Egg Hunt Award You have found all Easter Eggs!

Graded Awards

The following medals are awarded when you achieve specific requirements. Unlike daily awards, you'll still receive the medal even if other players have achieved more than you. As your level of achievement for a particular requirement increases over time, you'll get higher "grades" of the award. These awards encourage you to learn about major game features and then to keep using those features in your gameplay.

Even if you are a lousy Grepolis player and fail spectacularly, you'll still be awarded and graded for your EPIC FAIL achievements. Now you can boast about your failures! Remember: [Failure is the secret to success]!

The appearance of the award changes based on it's grade:

  • Grade 1 (lowest) -- badly broken columns either side of the medal
  • Grade 2 -- slightly broken columns either side of the medal
  • Grade 3 -- perfect columns, draped with tattered (ripped / worn) blue banners
  • Grade 4 (highest) -- perfect columns, draped with perfect blue banners

Usually only the highest grade you've reached will be displayed, although some players manage to display multiple grades of the same award somehow.

The one exception is the "Victim" award (which is the highest level of failure possible in Grepolis) as it has only one grade due to it's somewhat amusing requirements.

Resource Gathering

These awards encourage you to gather as many resources as possible, which in turn will allow you to increase the size of your civilisation and army.

While you can gain resources by building up your Timber Camp, Quarry and Silver mine, you will gain far more resources if you loot farming villages, attack enemy cities and trade goods at the market.

Award

(and how to get it)

Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Robber

(loot farming villages)

Resources loot 1.png

500 resources

Resources loot 2.png

50,000 resources

Resources loot 3.png

2,500,000 resources

Resources loot 4.png

50,000,000 resources

Jinxed

(lose units whilst looting)

Units lost during farm attack 1.png

50 units lost

Units lost during farm attack 2.png

250 units lost

Units lost during farm attack 3.png

1,000 units lost

Units lost during farm attack 4.png

Unknown

Merchant

(trade goods at the market)

Resources trade 1.png

20,000 resources

Resources trade 2.png

200,000 resources

Resources trade 3.png

2,000,000 resources

Resources trade 4.png

20,000,000

Civilisation Size

These awards encourage you to increase the size of your civilisation by:

In order to get more cities, you'll need more Culture.

The purpose of increasing your civilisation is to enable you to support a bigger army. If you're doing it just for the points (known as being a "Points whore" or "Sim city player") then enemies will just wipe you off the map as your cities will be easy targets for them to capture!

Award

(and how to get it)

Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Point King

(make cities bigger)

Points 1.png

2000 points

Points 2.png

25,000 points

Points 3.png

250,000 points

Points 4.png

Unknown

Bread and Games

(increase culture level)

Cultural step 1.png

Level 5

Cultural step 2.png

Level 20

Cultural step 3.png

Level 50

Cultural step 4.png

Unknown

Determined Expansionist

(build colony ships)

Colonize ships built 1.png

5 ships

Colonize ships built 2.png

50 ships

Colonize ships built 3.png

Unknown

Colonize ships built 4.png

Unknown

Peaceful Settler

(build new cities)

Towns founded 1.png

5 cities

Towns founded 2.png

Unknown

Towns founded 3.png

Unknown

Towns founded 4.png

Unknown

Conqueror

(Conquer enemy cities)

Towns conquered 1.png

5 cities

Towns conquered 2.png

25 cities

Towns conquered 3.png

75 cities

Towns conquered 4.png

Unknown

Island Overlord

(own all city slots on an island)

Own islands 1.png

1 island

Own islands 2.png

3 islands

Own islands 3.png

Unknown

Own islands 4.png

Unknown

Ruler of the Seas

(increase ocean ranking)

Sea ranking 1.png

Top 100

Sea ranking 2.png

Top 30

Sea ranking 3.png

Top 5

Sea ranking 4.png

Ranked #1

Ruler of the World

(increase world ranking)

World ranking 1.png

Top 1000

World ranking 2.png

Top 100

World ranking 3.png

Top 20

World ranking 4.png

Ranked #1

Recruitment

These awards encourage you to recruit more troops - a bigger army enables you to:

  • Defend better against enemy attacks
  • Attack and/or capture enemy cities
  • Loot more resources from farms and enemies
  • Gain more battle points during wars
Award

(and how to get it)

Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Trainer

(demand troops from farms)

Units claimed 1.png

100 recruits

Units claimed 2.png

1,000 recruits

Units claimed 3.png

Unknown

Units claimed 4.png

Unknown

Legendary Army

(train mythical creatures)

Mythological units built 1.png

5 monsters

Mythological units built 2.png

50 monsters

Mythological units built 3.png

500 monsters

Mythological units built 4.png

Unknown

Espionage

These awards encourage you to spy on other players. Your espionage activities reveal detailed information about your enemies, including:

  • The number and type of troops stationed in their city
  • The amount of resources they have in their warehouse
  • The levels of all their buildings

Armed with this information, you can better plan your attacks and have a better idea of what to expect should the enemy attack you first.

Award

(and how to get it)

Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Spy

(complete spy missions)

Espionage successful 1.png

5 missions

Espionage successful 2.png

50 missions

Espionage successful 3.png

500 missions

Espionage successful 4.png

Unknown

Double Agent

(fail spy missions)

Espionage failed 1.png

5 missions

Espionage failed 2.png

50 missions

Espionage failed 3.png

500 missions

Espionage failed 4.png

Unknown

War

These awards encourage you to wage war - both defending your own and alliance villages, and attacking enemy villages.

Award

(and how to get it)

Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Divine Aid

(use divine powers)

Powers used 1.png

10 times

Powers used 2.png

100 times

Powers used 3.png

1,000 times

Powers used 4.png

10,000 times

Unrelenting Fighter

(kill enemy units)

Units killed 1.png

250 kills

Units killed 2.png

2,500 kills

Units killed 3.png

25,000 kills

Units killed 4.png

250,000 kills

Heroic Death

(loose troops defending allies)

Units lost during support 1.png

100 deaths

Units lost during support 2.png

1,000 deaths

Units lost during support 3.png

10,000 deaths

Units lost during support 4.png

Unknown

Watery Grave

(loose units at sea)

Units lost without fight 1.png

10 drowned

Units lost without fight 2.png

100 drowned

Units lost without fight 3.png

1,000 drowned

Units lost without fight 4.png

Unknown

Victim

(die quickly)

Early game over.png

Killed less than a week after your beginner protection ends.

Speed Worlds

These awards are only available on "speed worlds" (worlds where everything happens at an accelerated rate)...

Award

(and how to get it)

Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
We Came. We Played. We Conquered.

(high alliance rank at end of game)

Speed world finished ally 1.png

Unknown

Speed world finished ally 2.png

Unknown

Speed world finished ally 3.png

Top 10

Speed world finished ally 4.png

Ranked #1

Ruler of the World

(high player rank at end of game)

Speed world finished player 1.png

Unknown

Speed world finished player 2.png

Unknown

Speed world finished player 3.png

Unknown

Speed world finished player 4.png

Unknown

Note: Normal worlds also have a "Ruler of the World" award, for more information see: #Civilisation Size.